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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from the heartland of Yorkshire beamed across the banding world with Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Produced and presented by Chris Helme for further information please see www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous week’s. It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website www.phoenixfm.co.uk

Yorkshire Dales

It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.com on Sunday mornings between 8am and 10am

Wigan

My radio programme has now been picked up by www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm

New Zealand

Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.

Requests

I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 23rd June:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Britannia Celebration – First UK performance
Anthony P. Zilincik
Brass Band of Columbus USA
MD: Brian Stevens — 2013

Jazz
Philip Wilby
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — 1997

Tucker
Bandmaster Erik Leidzen
Cornet Soloist Tom Giles with the SP&S Band
BM: Captain Eric Ball — 1935

Venus and Adonis — a tone poem
Drake Rimmer
Mirlees Works Band
MD: Jack Atherton — 1970

Summer Night
Benny Carter
Arr: Edrich Siebert
Thoresby Colliery (Joy Manufacturing) Band
MD: Stan Lippeatt — 1995

Iste Confessor
Michael Forsyth
Studio Brass Band of Sydney Australia
MD: Matthew Walmsley — 2008

Credo
Lorne Barry
Tredegar Band
MD: Ian Porthouse — 2012

On With The Motley
Leoncavallo
Arr: Ray Farr
Trumpet Soloist Jens Lindeman with the Foden's Band
D: James Gourlay — 2012

Four Cities Symphony
Rodney Newton
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2008

Ragamuffin
Ord Hume
Cornet Soloist Robert Oughton with the Ransome and Marles Band
MD: David Aspinall — 1950s

Purcell Variations
Kenneth Downie
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst — 2001

Dawn of Freedom March
William Rimmer
Mirlees Works Band
MD: Jack Atherton — 1970

Robin Adair
John Hartman
Euphonium Soloist Sydney Poole with the CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer — 1959

Suite from Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Arr: Alan Fernie
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2001

Light of the World
Bandmaster Dean Goffin
International Staff Band
BM: Major Bernard Adams — 1950

Elegy from A Downland Suite
John Ireland
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1990

Turba
Philip Wilby
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — 1997

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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